Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
Quotes to Explore
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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I love New York. Love it.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.
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I am not meet for petty men, slack their spirit: They know not, they, what day the Chief was made, what hour of the fine day was born the owner, what a beast they keep with its silver head. When we went with Arthur, a sorry strife, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hoar-side.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,A gauntlet with a gift in't.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.
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There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.
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It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
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Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
